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7. Some enter the womb in order to have a body, as organic beings, others go into inorganic matter, according to their work and according to their knowledge[1].

8. He, the highest Person, who is awake in us while we are asleep, shaping one lovely sight after another, that indeed is the Bright, that is Brahman, that alone is called the Immortal. All worlds are contained in it, and no one goes beyond. This is that[2].

9. As the one fire, after it has entered the world, though one, becomes different according to whatever it burns, thus the one Self within all things becomes different, according to whatever it enters, and exists also without[3].

10. As the one air, after it has entered the world, though one, becomes different according to whatever it enters, thus the one Self within all things becomes different, according to whatever it enters, and exists also without.

11. As the sun, the eye of the whole world, is not contaminated by the external impurities seen by the eyes, thus the one Self within all things is never contaminated by the misery of the world, being himself without[4].

12. There is one ruler, the Self within all things, who makes the one form manifold. The wise who perceive him within their Self, to them belongs eternal happiness, not to others[5].

13. There is one eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal

  1. Cf. Brih. Âr. II, 2, 13.
  2. Cf. IV, 9; VI, 1.
  3. Cf. Brih. Âr. II, 5, 19.
  4. Cf. Bhag. Gîtâ XIII, 52.
  5. Cf. Svet. Up. VI, 12.